Basketball, Men

Competition 1959 World Men Basketball Championships
Venue various cities CHI
Held 16 – 31 January 1959
Status Medal
Competitors 151
Countries 13

CHI as host was seeded automatically to the Final Round.

URS and BUL were placed at the bottom of the table of the Final Round after refusing to play against Formosa (Chinese Taipei).

Chinese Taipei (TPE) participated under the name Formosa in this tournament.

Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
🥇 Brazil BRA 7 0 2
Edson Bispo / Waldemar Blatskauskas / Otto Nóbrega / Fernando Brobró / Algodão / Rosa Branca / Boccardo / José Maciel Senra / Wlamir Marques / Amaury / Jatyr / Pedro Fonseca
🥈 United States USA 7 0 2
Richard Baker / James Coshow / Henry d'Antonio / Robert Hodges / Bob Jeangerard / Henry McDonald / John Miller / Ronald Olsen / Virgil Riley / Jerome Vayda / Richard Welsh / Edward White
🥉 Chile CHI 2 0 4
Rufino Bernedo / José De la Fuente / Rolando Etchepare / Orlando Etcheberrigaray / Maximiliano Garafulic / Dante Gianoni / Bruno Luchsinger / Luis Salvadores / Domingo Sibilla / Orlando Silva / Juan Guillermo Thompson / Juan Zitko
4 Chinese Taipei TPE 4 0 5
Hoo Cha-Pen / Liu Jing-Rong / Yao Hua-Qing / Lai Lam-Kwong / Emilio Li / Lee Nan-Hui / Tong Suet-Fong / Chen Tsu-Li / Kwok-Yeung Wong / Loo Yee-Shine
5 Puerto Rico PUR 3 0 6
Juan Ramón Báez / Toñín Casillas / José Cestero / Salvador Dijols / Evelio Droz / Martín Jiménez / John Morales / Johnny Rodríguez / José Ruano / Juan Vicéns
6 Soviet Union URS 7 0 2
Guram Minashvili / Arkady Bochkaryov / Yury Korneyev / Jānis Krūmiņš / Oleg Kutuzov / Guram Minashvili / Valdis Muižnieks / Yury Ozerov / Mikhail Semyonov / Vladimir Torban / Maigonis Valdmanis / Viktor Zubkov
7 Bulgaria BUL 5 0 4
Atanas Atanasov / Emanuil Gyaurov / Gencho Hristov / Georgi Kanev / Petko Lazarov / Iliya Mirchev / Georgi Panov / Lyubomir Panov / Viktor Radev / Tsvetko Slavov / Mikhail Semov / Metodi Tomovski
8 Philippines PHI 4 0 2
Emilio Achacoso / Kurt Bachmann / Carlos Badion / Loreto Carbonell / Gerry Cruz / Eddie Lim / Carlos Loyzaga / Mon Manulat / Alfonso Márquez / Ed Ocampo / Constancio Ortiz / Mariano Tolentino / Roberto Yburan
9 Uruguay URU 2 0 4
Carlos Blixen / Nelson Chelle / Ramiro Cortés / Héctor García / Adolfo Lubnicki / Sergio Matto / Raúl Mera / Octavio Pedragosa / Washington Poyet / Álvaro Roca / Milton Scarón / Manuel Usher
10 Argentina ARG 3 0 3
Héctor Barreneche / Enrique Borda / Herberto Fagnani / Felipe Fernández / Florencio Marzoratti / Juan Nano / Edgard Parizzia / Orlando Peralta / Juan Sabatini / Bernardo Schime / Antonio Tozzi / Carlos Vasino
11 United Arab Republic UAR 1 0 5
Hanafi Aboutaleb / George Chalhoub / Fouad El-Hadidi / Eli Jean Erian / Nabil Abdou Iskandar / Helmi Ibrahim Mohamed / Antoine Musillia / Raymond Sabounghi / Adel Sabri / Sami Shelbayah / Ahmed Sadeq Younis / Joseph Zakar
12 Canada CAN 3 0 3
Doug Brinham / Al Brown / Bob Burtwell / Ed Lucht / Ed Malecki / John McLeod / Peter Mullins / Lance Stephens / Logan Tait / Brian Upson / Ed Wild
13 Mexico MEX 0 0 6
Héctor Aizpuro / Ignacio Chavira / Daniel Cuevas / Arturo Escalera / Armando Herrera / José María Lozano / Filiberto Manzo / Edmundo Márquez / Hugo Orozco / Carlos Quintanar / Jorge Rentería / Jaime Rodríguez

Preliminary Round

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 United States USA 3 0 0 6
2 Chinese Taipei TPE 2 0 1 5
3 Argentina ARG 1 0 2 4
4 United Arab Republic UAR 0 0 3 3

Matches

Chinese Taipei TPE 71-69 United Arab Republic UAR
Argentina ARG 73-87 United States USA
Chinese Taipei TPE 73-81 United States USA
Argentina ARG 65-52 United Arab Republic UAR
Chinese Taipei TPE 63-59 Argentina ARG
United Arab Republic UAR 58-103 United States USA

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Brazil BRA 2 0 1 5
2 Soviet Union URS 2 0 1 5
3 Canada CAN 2 0 1 5
4 Mexico MEX 0 0 3 3

Matches

Soviet Union URS 102-72 Mexico MEX
Canada CAN 52-69 Brazil BRA
Soviet Union URS 73-64 Brazil BRA
Canada CAN 54-51 Mexico MEX
Soviet Union URS 54-63 Canada CAN
Mexico MEX 50-78 Brazil BRA

Group C

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Bulgaria BUL 3 0 0 6
2 Puerto Rico PUR 2 0 1 5
3 Philippines PHI 1 0 2 4
4 Uruguay URU 0 0 3 3

Matches

Puerto Rico PUR 55-67 Bulgaria BUL
Philippines PHI 68-59 Uruguay URU
Puerto Rico PUR 78-64 Uruguay URU
Bulgaria BUL 85-61 Philippines PHI
Puerto Rico PUR 76-63 Philippines PHI
Bulgaria BUL 65-58 Uruguay URU

Final

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Brazil BRA 5 0 1 11
2 United States USA 4 0 2 10
3 Chile CHI 2 0 4 8
4 Chinese Taipei TPE 2 0 4 8
5 Puerto Rico PUR 1 0 5 7
6 Soviet Union URS 5 0 1 10
7 Bulgaria BUL 2 0 4 7

Matches

Chinese Taipei TPE 71-71 (14-15)
After Extra Time
Chile CHI
Puerto Rico PUR 55-84 Soviet Union URS
Bulgaria BUL 58-63 United States USA
Chinese Taipei TPE 76-94 Brazil BRA
Puerto Rico PUR 71-83 Chile CHI
Puerto Rico PUR 53-54 United States USA
Bulgaria BUL 53-62 Brazil BRA
Soviet Union URS 66-63 Brazil BRA
Bulgaria BUL 76-71 Chile CHI
Chinese Taipei TPE 69-85 United States USA
Soviet Union URS 78-58 Bulgaria BUL
Chinese Taipei TPE 81-85 Puerto Rico PUR
Soviet Union URS 75-49 Chile CHI
Puerto Rico PUR 71-99 Brazil BRA
Soviet Union URS 62-37 United States USA
Puerto Rico PUR 62-70 Bulgaria BUL
United States USA 64-55 Chile CHI
Chinese Taipei TPE 2-0 wo Soviet Union URS
Brazil BRA 81-67 United States USA
Chinese Taipei TPE 2-0 wo Bulgaria BUL
Brazil BRA 73-49 Chile CHI

Classification Round 1

Group D

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Philippines PHI 2 0 0 4
2 United Arab Republic UAR 1 0 1 3
3 Canada CAN 0 0 2 2

Matches

Philippines PHI 66-65 United Arab Republic UAR
United Arab Republic UAR 71-69 Canada CAN
Philippines PHI 79-65 Canada CAN

Group E

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Uruguay URU 2 0 0 4
2 Argentina ARG 1 0 1 3
3 Mexico MEX 0 0 2 2

Matches

Uruguay URU 51-48 Argentina ARG
Uruguay URU 54-47 Mexico MEX
Argentina ARG 75-66 Mexico MEX

Classification Round Finals

Philippines PHI 78-70 Uruguay URU
Argentina ARG 61-59 United Arab Republic UAR
Canada CAN 64-56 Mexico MEX